Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Robert Duvall
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Plot: Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge and his kids against prejudice.
But is it any good?
I’d read the book of To Kill a Mockingbird already, so knew what would happen, but it made no difference. […]
Starring: Jurgen, Herbert and Klaus
Directed by: Wolfgang Peterson
Plot: German men hang out in U-boat during WW2. Things turn to shit.
But is it any good?
I simply could not watch it all. I know, I’m unqualified to comment properly on something I resorted to fast-forwarding through, but it was impossible. It just dragged on and on and […]
Starring: Peter Lorre
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Plot: When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
But is it any good?
I’d never heard of M before. Shame on me! I had seen Metropolis, and was rather overwhelmed that a directed had made something so ambitious so long […]
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Plot: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out.
But is it any good?
Not that it really matters, but the first and only time I’ve seen Taxi Driver […]
Not at the video store, so will have to wait.
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Starring: Morgen Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey
Directed by: David Fincher
Plot: Police drama about two cops, one new and one about to retire, who hunt a serial killer using the seven deadly sins as his MO. He’s always one step a-head (ahem) of them.
But is it any good?
Ouch. Se7en is not for the delicate-natured. […]
Starring: Adrian Brody
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Plot: A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
But is it any good?
Who would’ve thought that yet another movie about the Second World War would become a classic? Why aren’t we all suffering from war-movie fatigue?
Well, there are a few possible […]
